The parking restrictions are necessary to ensure that emergency vehicle access is maintained in these areas, and will result in street parking being allowed on one side of the street only.

Once the signage is in place, our Police will begin implementing enforcement of the restrictions. Warnings may be issued initially for vehicles parked in restricted areas to help inform residents of the restrictions. Parking violations will be enforced after two (2) weeks from sign placement.

We appreciate your cooperation as we work to address street access concerns within the community.

I love the last line where the city insincerely states that they appreciate their citizens’ cooperation. Forget that those who wrote or spoke before council for over a year met inaction; and forget that when citizens asked the city just to re-paint the curbs yellow they were presented this better solution with little feedback.

Evidently, sinking a post is easy; the lines on Center Drive prove the city struggles with the concept of painting the pavement.

The funny thing is that the only person in DuPont who seems to want a parking restriction sign is DuPont Cleaners and, you guessed it, they don’t get one.

The whole thing brings me back to 1983 and the MTV classic video “Institutionalized” by Venice, California Skate Punk/Trash Core band Suicidal Tendencies. Yellow curbs, just one Pepsi. What difference does it make? Both leave you feeling frustrated and with a sense of who is in charge.

I say “classic” because the song also appeared on the soundtrack to the film Repo Man, which introduced the “plate of shrimp” theory of Synchronicity to the world. Also, the parents are played by the late David Lynch mainstay, Jack Nance (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks); and Mary Woronov, a member of Andy Warhol’s factory superstars and Velvet Underground stage dancer, as well as an actress with numerous credits. I never really cared for the song back then, but I did understand it. Later, the lament of “All I wanted was a Pepsi” came to be a popular refrain to not getting what you really wanted.